The Next Economy

The Great Recession has been a wakeup call. It unveiled an economy dangerously out of whack: frenzied with consumption, wasteful in its use of energy, more adept at increasing inequity than sharing prosperity, more successful at exacerbating rather than easing divisions between Wall Street and Main Street. Bruce Katz will outline a vision of a rebalanced next economy in the United States—one that is increasingly oriented towards exports, lower carbon, fuelled by innovation, opportunity rich, and led by metropolitan areas—and explore its implications for the U.K. and Scotland.